The whale sighed in the air, and soon, her eyes fixed on Ruri. She was completely red, her body injured everywhere. Sensing the whale’s gaze, Ruri gave a soft, weak sigh.
Bruno felt his faith rune overflowing with power, all of it coming recently, but chose to stay silent. Alm, controlling the whale, knew that Bruno had used all the power of faith before and couldn’t heal her quickly. Soon he needed to comfort her.
The whale waved to Ruri, her eyes immediately shining. With Alm’s permission, she jumped into his arms, holding her tightly.
Alm and Bruno felt strange. Ruri soon raised her gaze, and their faces were very close. Their eyes locked onto each other, and their breaths synchronized; a strange desire took hold of them, and she felt the same. But the ground looks and their fluctuations were as clear as beacons. She stopped, unsure whether to continue, and that was the moment for Alm to react.
"Hey, stay on my back, we still have things to settle," Alm quickly said with the whale, then closed his eyes in concentration... or perhaps trying to disguise.
Yamar within the sect had to act at the exact moment; they couldn’t do it in the middle of the fight. The plan to start the battle a few hours before the barrier opened was to synchronize with the moment and ensure they would be free.
Their small fragment of divine soul awakened, and a few seconds later, Yamar released the storage seal of the dagger.
The sight of a majestic and imposing forest, stretching to the heights of the sky, appeared in Alm and Bruno’s senses. Tall trees, mountains all around, and an overall sense of grandeur filled their eyes. A Yang as dense as the current one in the city existed, creating an atmosphere of natural beauty. The difference was that the city was the core of a formation, while there everything seemed to flow naturally. That was the Skyward Forest, where they never had the chance to go.
Quickly, they infiltrated the body of the abyss demon. They burned their internal energies and heightened their senses.
Alm and Bruno saw a short distance away a gigantic skeleton of a large insect in the middle of the forest. There was no life in it, but they felt a terrifying density of the Holy Light Law concentrated there. Inside the skeleton, the laws guarded the sacred Yang world.
They had already removed the memories of the forest demon. It should have a profound knowledge of the law; they just hadn’t had time to read everything yet. The second seal could only be there, there was no doubt.
The body of the abyss demon moved, and Yamar and the forest demon he commanded moved behind in unison. It took them a few minutes to catch a glimpse of a skeleton the size of a monumental mountain. By the demon’s orders, there was no sect cultivator in the forest; everything was prepared for this moment.
The entire insect skeleton was carved with runes, a technique very similar to the one they had used once in the skeletal past. It was all a formation connected by these runes.
It was a spatial repository of Holy Light Law and Yang. Its body seemed to have the ability to feed and create these laws infinitely. There was no source like the abyss black towers; the bones themselves gave life to these laws. In other points of the sect, there was a Yin rune with a small world inside; there, the skeleton was the equivalent. That was very strange, which made the two analyze deeply.
Alm and Bruno, controlling the abyss demon, felt everything there and searched for any markings. Alm looked at the other demon and commanded him... he made the two demons hold hands in a very strange way.
Alm’s soul fragment separated and jumped to the other forest demon. He couldn’t stay away from Bruno, and that was the only way to do it, even if it was a peculiar sight.
He quickly sucked almost all the energies from inside the demon. Bruno used what remained in the first one, and he used the second one. They worked together. But they didn’t see, or ignored, Yamar’s strange and judgmental look behind.
Even without fully perceiving or understanding that law, their senses of danger indicated the most powerful place. It was a region that would be akin to a human’s throat, the center of everything; it just needed to be destroyed.
’That insect... it should be an entity with immortal cultivation that was used by the queen. It’s already dead, but its body has changed,’ Bruno analyzed seriously. ’The mutation and the miracle the queen wanted with her power... I get it. It directed everything to its body. Probably an attempt to free itself, an interesting move... but the queen simply killed it and used it as if it were a weapon.’
Alm added, ’If it’s smart, it should still be alive. This law can hide everything, even a soul. It can conceal its soul within the Yang world. There must be an infinite sea of Holy Light Laws there, amidst so many similar laws, it’s impossible to be found.’
’Yeah, the queen isn’t stupid and knows that. His body was used as the core of a seal and an eternal prison for him. He won’t ever escape with just a soul,’ Bruno said with a sigh.
Now everything became clearer. Quitera was the only one accepted to enter the Yang world; it was this entity who chose her. She received the benefits and was then expelled, taking only what he gave her. No one could enter that world because he controlled everything.
The two demons turned to Yamar, and he understood and nodded. The black dagger floated, and he focused. The Duality of Shadows law was within the dagger and slowly emerged, pulsing with a strange power.
’Are you ready?’ Bruno spoke gently.
Yamar just smiled. He was in the forest, but he felt the entire apocalyptic battle that happened on the planet. With his divine cultivation, he could even feel the deaths of millions of cultivators from the twelve families. Then he sensed the presence of two unbelievable figures... and in seconds, they ceased to exist. There was no doubt in Yamar; in fact, doubt never existed, even before feeling all of this.
She smiled faintly and looked at her siblings one last time, then closed her eyes silently. Alm and Bruno nodded satisfactorily; there was no lack of will in them. Without hesitation, they burned everything that the two demons they were possessing had.
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In the next second, Yamar felt a divine soul invade him. Everything about him was burned... until his soul began to shatter.
He felt his end slowly approaching; his siblings had just died, but he wouldn’t have that luck. His soul would be destroyed forever, but how many souls had he not destroyed? In his demonic days, he even refined thousands together, sadistically. Fear and gruesome tales of demons across the continent all featured him. Now it was his turn to pay, and that’s all he wanted.
The Duality of Shadows law pulsed with extreme power; the entire forest froze in response. In that second, the rune moved to the exact point. Then, the divine fragment of the two lit up, and all the possible power of the three demons was used by them.
In the next second, Alm and Bruno widened their eyes. They felt endless divine auras locking onto them in all directions.
’Screw it!’
When all living beings on the planet thought that finally all phenomena had ended, suddenly the entire Three Extremes Sect trembled in a violent earthquake. It reverberated and spread out; within seconds, the entire continent began to vibrate as if a new apocalypse had begun.
In the next second, the whale opened its eyes, its consciousness returning to its body. A cold sweat passed over him; even before the rune detonated with everything, thousands of spatial portals appeared around. The four Empyrean families sensed their actions and rushed to stop them. But they weren’t fast enough.
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Alm and Bruno smiled; everything was done. In the same second, they waved to the entire army of the city and returned to the center of the formation. Everything there was now theirs, and the whole new region of the continent, to be known by all as the ’Divine Round God’s Forest,’ was their home.