Chaos Divine Lightning surged like ink, turning the entire sky into a pitch-black hell.
Beneath the dense Thunder Sea, ability users below the ninth order could not see what was happening inside.
But the Church's chief Archpriest stood at Ninth-Order Peak. His mental power pierced the curtain of lightning, letting him see the scene within with ease.
His Holiness the Pope, once noble and untouchable, now had her magnificent papal robes reduced to strips of cloth.
Red marks from lightning strikes covered her snow-white skin.
Most terrifying of all, Xu Jingming's dragon claws were wrapped around her slender neck.
With the slightest squeeze, the pope who had ruled America for over a century would die.
"His Holiness the Pope has lost!" Kane's face went deathly pale.
He never would have imagined that Xu Jingming, who had only just reached First-Order Star Radiance, was even stronger than the pope!
"Mother lost?"
Catherine stared in a daze. Then she gritted her teeth and ignored Kane's attempt to stop her.
The three pairs of white wings on her back beat hard, and she plunged into the Dark Black Lightning Sea.
"Spare you? Give me a reason."
At the heart of the Thunder Sea, Xu Jingming looked coldly at Evelyn, who stood before him like a prisoner.
"America's treasury holds vast resources. Spare me, and I'll give you all of them!
I can even give you all of America if you want it!"
Evelyn spoke in a rush.
She was the pope who had ruled America for more than a hundred years.
Yet faced with death, she had abandoned the country without a moment's hesitation.
"Compared to Brother Zhou, who protects Great Xia, you're worthless."
Xu Jingming shook his head. "And I can get everything you just offered by killing you."
"No! If you