The celestial world dissipated as abruptly as it arrived. The whale, with Ruri on its back, landed on the ground, observing the land covered by a thin scarlet mist. It was the infernal laws that emanated from the three patriarchs.
These laws began to flow after their deaths, but a few seconds later, Bruno activated the power of faith and suppressed them. More precisely, they refused to mix or share the same space with each other, and their runes just remained still, apart.
As soon as the whale touched the ground and everything went dark, a scarlet tide rose frantically. At the same time, the instincts of Alm and Bruno sent a total alert; it was still distant, but certain death was rapidly approaching.
’Damn, the emperor is clearly behind this... we need to know how this happened.’
Bruno spoke and quickly used his soul to collect the three patriarchs’ bodies into the inventory. Then, Alm swiftly checked their bodies and sighed a little relieved.
’They’re here, it’s the command runes of the patriarchs. They were already dispersing and returning to the sect, but now they’re stuck.’
Alm said quickly. With those runes, they could open all the formations within the three sects; but most importantly, they could now remove the block on the memories of the three and read everything. That was the only source of information they had, but it would only be useful if they survived.
’We have nowhere to escape, and the survivors of the two clans are injured and weak. Even if they were fine, it would still be nearly impossible to escape the abyss in time.’ Bruno spoke, working his mind quickly.
Alm responded suddenly. ’There’s a place; it will be completely unexpected for them, and they won’t be able to pursue us even if the emperor comes personally. We have to enter the last realm, the realm of the seas.’
’It’s still closed to outsiders; the barrier is formed by spatial laws from the divine realm, and it’s impossible for us to enter...’ Bruno murmured, then his mind clicked, and he spoke with a sigh. ’No, there’s a single chance. We have to evolve our Yin and Yang tattoos, but we haven’t even scratched the surface of level two.’
Both of them thought for two seconds, but there was no other alternative. They were completely cornered, and the presence of death was getting closer; maybe they had only a few minutes to try something. The demons were running at full speed, but the distance between the layers was not small.
’We can use the laws of the earth from inside Ruri’s armor, along with Almin’s fire laws and the electric power of the sealed rune. It will cost us everything we have, but we can quickly take everyone to that realm, as it’s on the same level.’ Bruno thought quickly.
Alm then cut in coldly. ’If we do that, we’ll be sealing our end. We’ll have to use the Qi from practically all the treasures and abyss crystals that we’ve accumulated for this. Even if everything goes well, we can’t stay inside the realm forever; the spatial laws will open, or they will find a way to enter. We have to keep everything to have any hope for the future.’
Everything lasted less than ten seconds, and the infernal laws began to move towards the whale slowly. ’We won’t lose everything; quickly use your rune to absorb all the infernal laws.’ Bruno spoke hurriedly, sensing that there might be something more here.
Alm then activated his Yin tattoo and drew in all those laws that were very similar. In two seconds, an overwhelming amount of scarlet runes penetrated every inch of the whale. Then, his eyes turned red along with his entire skin, a furious and sinister pressure surged into the world.
The ten dark wings appeared on his back automatically, then the eleventh lit up. In the next second, the twelfth took form and thickened rapidly. It was complete, all twelve wings formed; then they seemed to transform and further multiply the infernal presence in them.
Suddenly, a scarlet runic symbol pulsed and lit up on their chests like a beacon. It was the symbol of the Evil God, something they directly gained from the Tablet of the Evil God in the prison. They were the fourth registered cultivator to receive this symbol directly from the tablet, and the benefits were always apparent. Now, with the twelve wings complete, the symbol seemed to awaken fully.
CRACK!
A destructive sound echoed through the world, coming from above, making the whale look up at the skies in awe. Everything above was covered in completely black and furious clouds, like a prelude to celestial intervention.
’Fuck, a celestial tribulation... it... it’s an entry-level tribulation for the Heaven Stage Realm!’ Bruno spoke in shock, feeling that power.
The sense of death was faintly coming from the skies, but the one coming from the depths of the abyss was incredibly stronger. They now had numerous targets on their heads.
’We can’t escape with the heavens marking us; we have to go through this quickly,’ Alm said coldly. ’This seems to have something to do with this symbol on our chests; it must be refined by celestial power. We can gather Qi from the laws for ourselves... this is equal to challenging celestial laws, but damn it.’
’This power is far beyond what our realm could withstand; we have to use everything, and we still can’t wait... damn it, either we succeed, or we die!’ Bruno roared. They had no time or alternatives.
They quickly laid Ruri unconscious on the ground and huffed, jumping up towards the clouds.
"COME ON, DAMN IT!!!" The whale roared and used all its Qi to throw a punch that tore a hole in the clouds.
CRACK!
The black clouds stirred even more furiously as if sensing the challenge. The power of lightning condensed into a single electric rune that lit up, changing to multicolored hues.
Then, it turned black... and the entire abyss felt a tremor in the laws. The army that was rushing from the last layers in the heavens fell to the ground, disconnected from their spiritual roots with the laws.
’I think we overdid it...’ Bruno mentally spoke with wide eyes.
BOOM!
The heavens seemed to collapse alongside that black rune that merged into an electric spear. Physical cultivation was pushed to the limit. The Yin and Yang tattoos lit up to the maximum. And all their focus and will were gathered.
When the lightning struck them, focusing exactly on the center of their chests, it was as if their bodies were being torn in half by two giants pulling in opposite directions.
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But as powerful as this tribulation was, Alm and Bruno had already gone through tribulations at the peak of cultivation. They had knowledge and experience in these and all laws coming from another universe. Of course, this had proven many times to be insufficient; all the laws of this universe of the queen were hundreds of times more powerful and different.
But that’s what the electric rune that served as the core of the storm realm was for. Back in that electric realm, Alm and Bruno focused on trying to elevate physical cultivation with electrical laws. It was a failure, but in doing so, they studied these laws and their differences from what they knew. Soon, in addition to the laws of the earth, they could say that the electrical laws were what they had the most knowledge of in this universe.
The whale’s body almost exploded in blood, all its skin was charred and torn off, all its bones cracked, its organs twisted and injured...
But the tattoos sucked all the Qi from the heavens; only the pure celestial power remained falling into their chests.
Ten seconds passed. Then the clouds dispersed, and all forms of life in the abyss seemed to breathe again.
THUD!
The whale fell from the heavens onto the black, blood-stained ground. Saying that he was injured or in very bad shape was an understatement in the face of his wounds...
But in the next second, that round and disfigured figure between black and red rose a bit shakily. Only his white eyes made him look somewhat alive.
’It’s been a while since we’ve been through something of this level... nostalgic.’ Bruno spoke calmly, and Alm just snorted.
Physical pain had ceased to be relevant to them a few thousand years ago; they simply ignored everything. Bones were cracked but not broken; muscles were... maybe 40% functional? It didn’t matter; they managed to get up and walk, so they moved.
’Unfortunately, that lightning, even before, was far beyond what we could handle. There was no possibility of using it to improve our physical cultivation; we could only defend ourselves.’ Alm said regretfully, then quickly felt where the symbol of the evil god should be.
Then both became intrigued; there was nothing there... they then tried to activate their wings and infernal laws with a thought. Soon, within their cores, a single scarlet rune lit up. There were no more wings, and only a familiar feeling emerged, followed shortly by a shock.
’This... holy shit! It’s like an elemental rune, this could only exist in the Elemental Condensation Realm.’ Bruno commented incredulously.
But they didn’t have time to reflect... the mortal sensation became palpable and inevitable.
The two then focused only on the sensation. It was coming from the direction of the last layers of the abyss, and it was clear that there were four different points. The four largest clans of the abyss were running towards them, even more agitated than before; they only had a maximum of two minutes now.
A message was quickly sent through the array to Almin. He was far away, but as their cultivations increased, the maximum distance of the array’s sharing and communicating ability became greater. Almin listened in silence to the whale’s few words. Their lives and the lives of the half-wyverns were now in Langrum’s hands, and the chance of her succeeding was so slim that it was desperate.
The whale placed Ruri back on its back; she twisted her face upon feeling their black skin completely burned and destroyed. But she soon wrapped her arms around their neck and seemed to relax, still asleep.
They used various crystals to fill their meridians with QI and, with a leap, entered the destroyed walls of the clan. The whale quickly, using its QI, moved all the unconscious half-demons; they didn’t have enough faith power to fully heal them, so they just saved them by keeping them alive.
In ten seconds, everyone was gathered and piled up in one place without any delicacy. All of Almin’s fire runes were absorbed by Alm and Bruno through the array. Then, they activated the runic storage seal on Ruri’s clothes. Those were the last laws of the earth they had to use, and Ruri would be completely unprotected again.
They drew the sealed electric rune from their inventory in total concentration. The laws of the earth created a circular shield enveloping everyone in the clan, with the whale at the center. Then the fire runes lit up, and an infinite electric power was dangerously unleashed, merging with it.
All the QI they stole from the heavenly tribulation was poured into the two elemental runes, as if they were throwing oil on the flames. The space quickly began to tremble before the explosive destructive power that was being unleashed.
BOOM!
The entire eleventh level of the abyss trembled before the explosion of fire and lightning. In the skies, at an extreme speed that everyone would say was impossible, a completely cracked earth missile, threatening to explode at any moment, crossed the horizon.