Chapter 788: Taking Down the Corruption Source, Regional Event: Cleanse the World’s Blight Complete

“Awoooo!”

The Corruption Source had only just recovered from the hard stun inflicted by [Diagnosis: Epilepsy] when it felt a sudden, searing pain.

Its eyes instantly turned bloodred, and the corruption emanating from its body nearly became tangible.

Intense humiliation and fury welled up inside the Corruption Source.

“He… how dare he… How dare he!”

The Corruption Source went berserk.

Ignoring Xiao Xi’s attacks completely, it raised its abdomen and lifted its tail.

All the energy in its body gathered and compressed, surging toward that “foreign object.”

And so…

Under Yu Yuan and Xiao Xi’s utterly astonished gazes,

a figure wreathed in bloodred flames was “fired” out by the Corruption Source like a cannonball.

Hogg managed only a garbled cry

before going splat and embedding himself in the stone wall of the underground cavern.

A mouthful of blood mixed with black oil and some unknown substance sprayed from Hogg’s mouth.

Then he began retching uncontrollably.

As the Blood Flames scorched these substances, they gave off an exceptionally foul stench.

The odor quickly filled the underground cavern.

Yu Yuan’s expression changed dramatically.

He looked at Hogg with deep admiration.

Then he turned to the Corruption Source. He absolutely couldn’t let Hogg’s sacrifice be in vain.

Xiao Xi had already gathered Dawnlight in her hands once more and was attacking the Corruption Source with everything she had.

Yu Yuan’s Psychic Ability was also being unleashed in a relentless barrage.

But the Corruption Source had clearly lost all reason. It ignored both Xiao Xi and Yu Yuan, turning all the corruption energy on its body into watermelon-sized black spheres that shot toward Hogg like a downpour.

Unfortunately, when these spheres of corruption energy struck Hogg, they didn’t produce the corruption effect anyone might have expected.

Aside from covering Hogg with even more black oil, they did not harm him in the slightest.

The Corruption Source froze.

Xiao Xi’s attacks arrived right after.

Meanwhile, Mie Mie appeared beside Yu Yuan.

The instant Mie Mie appeared, it was like a ray of light in the night, illuminating the entire underground cavern.

[Hoofprint Spring] purified all the corruption energy within ten meters.

Sensing the threat of death, the Corruption Source looked toward Mie Mie.

It saw Mie Mie rear up on its hind legs. A ray of Dawnlight, representing the dawn, flashed across its golden horns.

[Break of Dawn] descended.

The hundred or so rays of [Break of Dawn] spiritual light it had painstakingly accumulated over this period burst into brilliant radiance.

A quantitative change had triggered a qualitative one.

A distinct aura radiated from Mie Mie.

The might of its Dawnlight increased by thirty percent out of nowhere.

The black mist vanished completely beneath the spiritual light, and white flames appeared on the Corruption Source’s body.

Its wings turned to ash beneath the scorching flames.

Its arthropod limbs, too, broke apart piece by piece and disappeared.

“How is this possible? Why is it a sheep that wields this power here…?” the Corruption Source looked at Mie Mie in terror.

It tried to struggle and fight back.

But its source had already suffered grievous damage, and now the Dawnlight was weakening and suppressing it to an extreme degree.

It had lost all strength.

The Corruption Source regretted its decision.

It regretted coming to this world.

But it was already too late…

Xiao Xi simultaneously shifted into her Life form.

Working with Mie Mie, she released Dawnlight.

Under the glow of [Break of Dawn], Hogg’s vitality rapidly recovered.

He tore himself free from the stone wall, ignited his Blood Flames once more, and darted behind the Corruption Source in a series of quick, nimble movements.

The Corruption Source’s defenses had fallen drastically, and Hogg broke through them with ease once again.

The Blood Sea Abyss unleashed its power frantically. Transcendent-level energy clashed again and again, while the bonus of twenty percent true attack ground away at the Corruption Source’s essence.

Yu Yuan’s Psychic Ability finally triggered once more.

A fragment of memory entered Yu Yuan’s mind, and the Corruption Source fell into a state of forgetfulness.

The moth’s body became riddled with holes.

Finally,

when the light of [Break of Dawn] had completely faded from the underground cavern,

the Corruption Source’s body had become a withered, decaying corpse.

It was on the verge of disintegrating.

Hogg also took the opportunity to move away from the Corruption Source.

The Corruption Source was now nothing but a shriveled husk, with no fighting strength left.

“You…” The Corruption Source’s eyes turned toward Yu Yuan, sending out a faint mental pulse.

“You’ll be next… Heh… heh… You can’t escape…”

Yu Yuan snorted coldly. Sensing that the stolen Psychic Ability was about to dissipate, he didn’t hesitate.

At the turn of his thoughts, the Blood Sea Abyss gathered into a gigantic bloodred hand.

It came crashing down from above with the force of thunder, slamming toward the Corruption Source.

BAM!

The bloodred palm struck the Corruption Source with tremendous force.

Unable to resist in the slightest, the Corruption Source shattered into countless fragments beneath the bloodred palm’s thunderous might.

Ding!

[Regional Event: Cleanse the World’s Blight has been updated]

[Civilization Event: Proof of Civilization has been updated]

[Having accumulated three kills of Transcendent-level lifeforms, with at least one kill contribution exceeding 50%, you meet the hidden achievement requirements: Overcome Higher-Ranked Opponents]

[Achievement unlocked: Overcome Higher-Ranked Opponents]

[Achievement Points obtained: 2,000,000]

[You killed a Transcendent-level lifeform, triggering Plunder authorization. You have obtained the identity of [New World · Ancient One] and inherited all of its renown]

As golden lines of information flashed before Yu Yuan, the stolen Psychic Ability, [Transdimensional · Blood Sea Abyss Descent], officially ended.

Yu Yuan’s Life Level returned to Silver-tier, but it wasn’t time to celebrate yet.

There was one last thing he needed to do.

He looked toward Xiao Xi.

“Xiao Xi, use everything you have to clear away the corruption energy left behind by the Corruption Source while you still can.”

“Understood!”

Xiao Xi threw the full power of her Fallen Domain into absorbing the corruption energy.

Only now was the power Xiao Xi possessed as a Transcendent-level being truly on display.

She could clearly sense the locations of all the corruption energy scattered throughout Green Forest World and exert influence over it.

Without the Corruption Source’s spirituality bolstering it, the corruption energy could not resist Xiao Xi’s control at all.

She didn’t even need to urge it on. The corruption energy, cut off from its source, rapidly converged toward her on its own.

This was especially true of Terra Continent, which had been blasted into fragments during the Transcendent-level battle.

The dense corruption energy quickly gathered, then burrowed underground and disappeared.

The same thing happened in the Northern Wilderness of the Naxi Continent.

If anyone had been above Green Forest World at that moment, they would have seen several enormous clouds of black energy rushing toward the Northern Wilderness at an astonishing speed.

Like rivers flowing into the sea, this corruption energy was easily consumed and devoured by Xiao Xi.

But as the very last trace of corruption energy slipped into the Fallen Domain,

[Regional Event: Cleanse the World’s Blight complete]

Hearing the notification by his ear,

“It’s settled!”

Before long, the effect of Xiao Xi’s Psychic Ability, [Fallen Divine Being], ended. Her Life Level rapidly fell, returning once more to the peak of Silver-tier.

Xiao Xi stumbled, her face pale and drained. She hurriedly gulped down two bottles of Legendary-tier Blood Brew, and only then did she feel a little better.

But her gaze had already settled on the Corruption Source’s corpse.

Her eyes burned with desire.