With the divinity and blessings bestowed by the Great Siming, after sixteen rebirths and countless battles, the Venerable Elder had finally crossed the chasm between the purgatorial mortal body and the bestowed demon, completing a qualitative leap.
Tracing upward.
She had awakened the Blood of Calamity passed down by the Eternal Ring, gaining mastery over the Serpent's Cycle of death and revival, mercy and cruelty.
After decisively tearing out her own right eye, the Blood of Calamity from the Mother of Compassion merged completely with the miracle bestowed by the Great Siming within her left eye.
Mercy and care for young offspring, cruelty and brutality toward enemies—the essence of the Eternal Ring manifested through the two-sided miracle and calamity, forming a new source of power.
This was loyalty that entrusted one's soul to the Return to Ruin.
At that moment, the Venerable Elder had become one of the Crowned Ones under Huai Shi's Great Swarm.
After expressing her loyalty to Huai Shi in the most direct manner, the Venerable Elder wasted no more words. She instantly rose into the air and, like a giant serpent swimming through the sea, rode the tide of freezing air and circled the Solar Ship three times.
Wherever she passed, bone-piercing frost enveloped the White Scale Guards and the Undead Army, coating their armor and bodies in a thick layer of icy scales. Rooted in flesh and blood, it stimulated the brutality within them in the most direct way, turning pair after pair of eyes crimson as they howled and roared in abandon.
The wildly dancing priests loudly sang hymns, scattering the blessings of the Eternal Ring and rapidly raising the temperature of the Hell Sediment in their bloodlines, bringing forth ever more violent strength.
In that instant, the hatches on both sides of the