Chapter 2663 - 2664: End of the Maze

"What truly nauseating opponents."

Feng Yuan coldly remarked as he watched the fleshy masses emerge from the flesh and blood wall. These masses rapidly shifted form into grotesquely unsettling half-body mannequins, each clutching a variety of sanguine weapons, their cone-shaped lower halves ending in a vein-like tube connecting back to the flesh and blood wall.

The half-body mannequins, expressionless yet perfectly fitting the uncanny valley effect, brandished their weapons and charged at Feng Yuan. However, Veronia acted first, as the Crystal Shine Dragon roamed continuously, smashing the mannequins into pieces of flesh.

The fragments of flesh flying everywhere were nauseating. Feng Yuan’s brow slightly furrowed as his free right hand suddenly clenched into a fist. The Dark Ancient Book floating beside him burst forth with a blinding black light. Wherever the light touched, the flesh withered. Not only did the flesh and blood wall suffer severe damage and turn blackened, but the scattered flesh also turned to ashes, dissipating with the wind.

"That’s quite direct."

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan and muttered, not saying much more. After all, Feng Yuan’s method, while somewhat disrupting the local rules, did eliminate a very unpleasant annoyance.

Even Veronia felt a wave of discomfort facing those entities, leaving her to wonder how ordinary challengers would fare against them. She doubted it would go well for them.

After all, they wouldn’t have Feng Yuan’s means to directly cause the flesh to wither. This seemingly simple feat was a manifestation of the power of the Qi Realm, inaccessible without Divine Beast level strength.

In other words, ordinary people entering, even with a Death Series Spirit Beast, couldn’t achieve what Feng Yuan did. Encountering such nauseating enemies, Veronia seriously doubted it wouldn’t cause mental harm.

Could this also be part of the test? Ha, indeed, the power of the Qi Realm seems full of dangers at every turn.

Internally muttering to herself, Veronia refrained from taking further action, as Feng Yuan alone was enough to cleanse these enemies. Besides, she lacked Feng Yuan’s skill in withering flesh.

Rather than engaging in a chaotic battle, it was preferable to let Feng Yuan handle the cleanup, especially since the endpoint was no longer far off, and she could already sense the malice from the Qi Realm.

"I always feel like the Qi Realm isn’t anything good."

Sighing, Veronia muttered, while Feng Yuan glanced at her and said irritably,

"Why would you think the Qi Realm is any good? That thing is inherently a danger zone. Even if it offers great power boosts, the side effects are also significant."

Qi Chen and the others might be blinded by power, unable to see clearly, but Veronia surely wouldn’t covet such marginally valuable power.

"After all, it’s a domain merged into the Main World. Before this, there hadn’t been a domain with more negative than positive impacts merging into it."

Veronia chuckled lightly, not speaking randomly. Compared to the myriad dangers and traps of the Qi Realm, other domains barely present such issues.

Generally, domains that can integrate into the Main World are beneficial. A peculiar case like the Qi Realm hadn’t been seen before.

"Now there’s one, right? Severe side effects, great benefits—a desperate measure, though it feels more like a mutual destruction with the enemy."

Feng Yuan laughed and shook his head, saying, the power of the Qi Realm is too peculiar, even affecting Divine Beasts. However, accordingly, despite the downsides, there’s a benefit: the power of the Qi Realm can even boost the strength of Divine Beasts, though with severe consequences.

Even Veronia might struggle to withstand the fully uncontrolled power of the Qi Realm. Yet Feng Yuan had a gut feeling that if Veronia could fully wield the power of the Qi Realm, it might even temporarily rival Shi and Xilnaes.

Not knowing what Feng Yuan was thinking, Veronia sensed the thought might not be entirely polite.

Before Veronia could remind him, Feng Yuan snapped out of his thoughts, glanced at the decaying blood wall around, and said,

"Let’s go; this shouldn’t be a maze."

The endpoint’s aura was too evident, seemingly guiding them intentionally. Feng Yuan doubted a maze would appear under such circumstances.

The entire flesh and blood wall formed a disc-shaped bending path, where the originally direct route to the end now required circling inward due to the wall’s influence.

Along the way, the half-body mannequins continually attacked, while Feng Yuan utilized his power to erase the life from the flesh and blood wall. The grey death spread along Feng Yuan’s path from the entrance, almost engulfing the entire flesh disc.

"This thing... don’t tell me it’s meant to be eaten; if so, I certainly couldn’t stomach it."

Reaching the endpoint along the passage and gazing at the enormous tree made of writhing flesh, Feng Yuan said, speechless. Wasn’t this thing a bit too disgusting?

Even if it could unlock a new stance of the Qi Realm, Feng Yuan didn’t want to approach that nauseating thing in front of him.

As Feng Yuan complained, the surroundings abruptly twisted, transforming the desolate flesh and blood muck into withered shrub walls, and the flesh and blood tree into a towering banyan tree.

"This, truly, becomes more repulsive the more you look at it."

Covering his face, Feng Yuan was speechless. Although this circular space was now birds singing and fragrant flowers blooming, he had already seen its essence, so how could he believe this was reality?

No matter how beautiful the illusory existence is, Feng Yuan wouldn’t believe he could stomach that thing.

"The Qi Realm has quite a twisted sense of humor."

Veronia chuckled dryly, not needing to forcefully seek the power of the new stance, so she didn’t care much. However, the clumsy attempt at concealment still left her feeling uncomfortable.

Setting down Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan grabbed the Black Scythe, gazing coldly at the massive banyan tree before him. Birds fluttered at the treetop, but upon activating his true sight, what he saw were eyes orbiting the blood-dripping flesh and blood tree.

"Such an aberrant thing should be destroyed."

With a wave of his left hand, the Dark Ancient Book opened on its own. Feng Yuan prepared to erase this thing from the world. Unlike Veronia and the others, Feng Yuan could directly permanently erase things from the Yang World when using his methods.

This was achieved through records in the Yin World, or more accurately, the Yin World’s backup of the Yang World. By removing the existence from all records in the Yin World and writing a permanent ban on related information in the Yin World’s rules, the thing could never reappear in the Yang World.

Of course, this method had severe consequences, as many seemingly insignificant existences were actually linked to many important things, and this erasing technique couldn’t remove this linkage.

The loss of key information would cause operational errors in the real world. However, the impact wasn’t significant when not many things were erased.

Therefore, Feng Yuan wasn’t worried that erasing this wretched thing before him would cause any serious effects. At worst, it would cause operational chaos in the Qi Realm. So what? If not cleaned out, Feng Yuan could already imagine the mindset of others who struggled to reach this place and saw this wretched tree.

"Wait, it seems there’s still a change."

Veronia noticed something and called out to Feng Yuan. However, no matter how he looked, Feng Yuan didn’t see any change in the thing, since he had activated true sight and saw only truth.

In contrast, Veronia lacked true sight and thus saw different things. The original blue sky was being covered with dark clouds, resembling an impending storm poised to destroy the massive banyan tree.

The illogical fruits hanging from the banyan tree flickered with tempting glows, as if reminding it to hurry or the fruits would disappear.

Silently watching the changes in the sky, Veronia had a premonition that this matter wasn’t that simple.

"The counterattack has come."

Watching the distant enemies appear, Qi Chen and others wore solemn expressions. There was no way the Empire’s counterattack would be easy to resolve.

Even with the Mythological Remnants present, they couldn’t let down their guard.

However, precisely because of the Mythological Remnants, they didn’t act as the main assault but provided support instead. If not for the weapon given by the Mythological Remnants, they wouldn’t even qualify for a supporting role.

For the Mythological Remnants had already identified what the giant wheel spinning behind the Imperial people truly was.

The Holy Wheel of Eight Desolations Burning.

A Divine Artifact from the Mythical Era, representing the Authority of Flames, standing on par with the Anti-Divine Beast Rune.