Ganyu Unleashed, Geo Spears Suppress the Gods
The Asura God flicked his fingertips repeatedly, sending streaks of black light hurtling one after another into the golden barrier, each more vicious than the last. Golden light shuddered violently, but the barrier's defenses remained firm. The light of the Sigil of Permission, however, rapidly dimmed—it was a single-use adeptal treasure for protection, so it was only natural that it would be consumed.
"Crack-"
For some reason, a cracking sound suddenly came from the barrier, yet Gan Lin could sense that the Sigil of Permission should still have plenty of power left...
With a crisp crack, the golden barrier shattered completely. Just as the black light was about to strike Gan Lin, the diary in his arms suddenly floated out of its own accord and hovered before him. The patterns on its cover glowed a deep blue, and its pages turned without wind. A soft yet resilient blue light poured from between them, forcibly catching the remaining streaks of black light.
As the blue light faded, a graceful figure in blue slowly took shape.
Her wide sleeves flowed like clouds, blue hair fell to her waist, and half a pale purple Qilin horn showed at her temple. A faint icy mist curled around her.
But the cross-world summoning had consumed most of the reward's power. Her form was translucent, tiny motes of light shimmered around its edges, and even her presence was much weaker. Clearly, she was not at her full strength.
The moment Ganyu appeared, her gaze fell on Gan Lin.
The young man was half-kneeling on the ground, blood constantly seeping from the corners of his mouth. The front of his robes was stained dark red, his shoulders trembled slightly, and even his breaths came with flecks of bloody foam. His eyes, usually bright with laughter, now held only gravity and unwillingness.
Ganyu's almond-shaped eyes, always gentle and warm, suddenly turned cold. It was as though profound ice that had not melted for three thousand years surged up from their depths. Even the churning currents of ice and fire around her stalled, and fine ice crystals instantly formed in the air. Icy blue adeptal power quietly rose around her, bearing the chilly pressure of a Qilin adeptal beast. Though it made no great display, it weighed as heavily as ten thousand pounds.
"Oh? Another remnant of the adeptal beasts."
The Asura God's avatar of will tilted his head, his gaze sweeping over the Qilin horn at her temple. His voice was full of casual contempt. "The dragon clan's remnants have found themselves a lackey? How interesting."
He had thought it was merely an inanimate object containing divine power. He had not expected it to summon a living being. But in his eyes, a mere adeptal beast of the lower realm was no different from the ant below.
He paid Ganyu no mind at all. With a sharp downward press of his finger, a streak of annihilating black light several times thicker than before took shape and crashed down, carrying an even stronger intent to slaughter. This time he used his full strength, intending to grind the divine beast that had suddenly appeared, the young man below, and the Ice and Fire Dragon Pearl into dust.
Ganyu did not retreat.
She did not even spare the world-destroying black light another glance. She merely raised her right hand, and a point of luminous white ice light formed at her fingertip.
An ice lotus slowly bloomed beneath the black light.
Its petals were translucent as glazed crystal and cold jade, arranged in twelve layers. Each one shimmered with the pure radiance of the adepti and the essence of extreme cold.
The instant the ice lotus bloomed, an extreme chill spread outward at a speed visible to the naked eye. The surging fire spring instantly froze in its churning motion, and thick frost flowers formed on the cavern walls. When the incomparably overbearing black light struck the ice lotus, it failed to stir the slightest ripple. With a soft sound, it began to freeze inch by inch from its tip.
The cold flowed back up the black light, freezing even the Asura God's avatar of will, formed from black mist, in midair.
Ganyu turned her fingertip slightly.
The ice lotus shattered, and the frozen black light and avatar of will shattered with it. All turned into a skyful of tiny ice shards that scattered on the wind, leaving not even a trace of annihilating presence behind.
The cavern fell silent in an instant.
The next moment, a furious growl came from the depths of the void. The sound pierced the barriers of space and time across tens of millions of years, carrying a deity's wrath. It shook the entire cavern, and the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well shot skyward, raising waves several zhang high.
"Insolence! A mere beast of the lower realm dares destroy my avatar of will!"
The Asura God was truly enraged. After the ancient war, he had held dominion over slaughter and ranged unhindered across the three realms. When had he ever suffered such humiliation? An avatar of his divided consciousness had been easily annihilated by a beast of the lower realm.
"I shall descend to the lower realm myself, raze this land, and exterminate you, remnant of the adeptal beasts, along with the dragon clan's surviving spawn!"
Black mist churned wildly in the depths of the void as a massive spatial rift slowly tore open. The Asura God's true body was about to descend. Terrifying slaughterous pressure poured through the rift, the earth began to split, and great chunks of rock fell from the cavern ceiling. Even the Ice and Fire Dragon Pearl began to tremble violently, its light flickering.
Ganyu stepped sideways and planted herself firmly before Gan Lin. Ice elemental power rose around her once more, without a trace of fear.
Just as the spatial rift was about to tear fully open, a weighty golden light suddenly appeared in the heavens above the Divine Realm.
It was not a dazzling divine radiance, but a golden light as solemn and dense as the earth, as heavy as mountains. Bearing the majesty accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, it slowly spread.
"You have overstepped."
The deep voice resounded through heaven and earth, calm yet carrying a weight that allowed no objection.
The next second, countless golden Geo spears tore across the Divine Realm's sky like a dense shower of golden meteors, crashing down with the weight of mountains! Every spear was wreathed in divine Geo power, and they struck the spatial rift in a dense barrage.
"Boom-boom-boom-"
Amid the earthshaking crashes, the expanding rift was forcibly hammered into shrinking and closing. Layer upon layer of golden Geo spears lodged in the rift, forming an indestructible barrier of rock that held the Asura God's black mist firmly on the Divine Realm's side.
A golden divine figure slowly appeared in the heavens. His long hair was black as ink, divine armor patterned with rock covered his body, and the spear in his hand pointed obliquely toward the earth. Weighty divine Geo power flowed around him...
The Geo Archon, the God of War, the God of Contracts...
Morax!
He stood on the horizon, gazing calmly toward the churning black mist. There was no anger on his face, yet he possessed a majesty that could suppress all ages.
"This ends here."
His voice was not loud, yet it carried throughout the Divine Realm.
Within the black mist, the Asura God's presence surged violently. Clearly, he was furious to the extreme.
"Who are you?" The Asura God's voice carried suppressed anger.
"That doesn't matter."
As Morax looked at the ever-growing number of deities gathered before him, his gaze never changed.
Either way... it would take only one strike.
The crisis passed, and the golden light in the heavens gradually faded.
Inside the cavern, Ganyu gave a slight nod in the direction where the golden light had vanished from the heavens. Then she turned, hurried down to Gan Lin's side, and crouched beside him. Her voice had returned to its usual gentleness, with a touch of heartache she could not conceal. "Gan Lin, how are you? Are your internal injuries serious?"
Gan Lin had yet to recover from the sudden upheaval. He looked at the familiar, gentle face before him, then raised his head to gaze at the sky, which had returned to calm. After a long while, he finally murmured, "Ganyu... sister?"