"Couple's Bow..."
Bridal Lady's distorted voice resounded across the heavens, yet it was impossible to tell where it had come from.
Breaking through spatial barriers.
Came at a cost.
No one knew what method Azure Dragon had used to summon Bridal Lady's power. But perhaps because they were too far apart and too much power had been lost, the terrifying might of a Demigod-Class force stalled at the final step.
As the ritual proceeded.
The body of the Ancient Evil Spirit, shaped like a shadow figure, seemed to have put on a groom's ceremonial robe.
It slowly bent at the waist.
Yet it did not truly bow.
Heaven and earth.
The ancestral hall.
Neither had actually been completed.
When it came to the "Couple's Bow" stage, its waist slowly straightened again.
Resistance!
"Couple's Bow..."
There was a hint of impatience in Bridal Lady's voice.
The Evil Spirit's body stiffened and stopped rising, but it maintained its refusal to bow.
And.
This situation did not last long.
A few seconds later.
It straightened its back again.
This scene.
It was practically a wedding being called off!
"Couple's Bow!"
The voice grew somewhat hurried. The candle that was Azure Dragon's incarnation suddenly brightened, and the flames burned even more fiercely.
The Evil Spirit remained unmoved.
"Couple's Bow!!"
This time.
There was no trace of festivity left. Bridal Lady's voice was shrill and vicious, like fingernails frantically scraping across a blackboard. It was unbearably grating, making people want to cover their ears.
But at this moment.
The Ancient Evil Spirit instead seemed to have broken free of its shackles.
It suddenly straightened.
Its back rose fully upright!
The bright groom's robe on its body dispersed along with it, restoring its original body, seeming neither black nor not black, seeming neither shadow nor not