After Xu Zhi leaped out of the deep pit and landed on the ground, she found that the Mansus—at least this area of it—had completely lost its former fair and peaceful appearance. The land, repeatedly bombarded by lightning strikes and supernatural abilities, was scorched black. The sky was shrouded in dark clouds and blood-red hues, with no source of light apart from the faint red glow and the fleeting flashes brought by lightning and thunder.
Even the sun that had always hung high overhead had unknowingly ceased to shine upon this land. It was as though this place had become abandoned; nothing fell here anymore except thunder and punishment.
At that moment, Xu Zhi clearly saw in the distance the blood-red tentacles growing from Cup's body as she fought Lamp, along with Heart and Forge, who were connected to those tentacles and no longer retained any recognizable "living creature" form.
The only reason Xu Zhi could still identify them was by their auras, by the supernatural attributes spreading across the battlefield. To the naked eye, the two gods had become nothing more than grotesque, nauseating lumps of flesh. She did not know what Cup had done to them, but one thing was certain: they were little different from dead.
Lamp was not in good condition either. The moment Cup saw Xu Zhi climb from the pit, she seemed to realize something and suddenly unleashed an immense amount of supernatural energy she had never used before. Then, the two gods she had completely controlled transformed into malformed mountains of flesh and blood that crushed toward Lamp. Countless tentacles extended from the flesh. They were no longer the easily severed distractions from before, but restraints truly formed from Heart and Forge's bodies and energy, leaving Lamp nowhere to retreat.
Cup's intention was